I despair, but this is true.

Well, exactly.

Exactly this.

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Sadiq Khan here, "going to sharia law" in London 🙃

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Spot on.

Absolutely. It's disgusting, and an illustration of the basic cowardice of the current government, that neither the PM nor any senior minister has said the same.

I cannot think of a better illustration of how badly our media has failed us over the past decade or 2, and is continuing to fail us, than this. Just appalling. Reform wins because our media just refuse to report truth and fact.

Nick Robinson on #r4today interviewed some Tory on tackling immigration this morning. After the usual horseshit about Rwanda, he honked out the desperate idea of just rounding up everyone in migrant hotels and deport them. He got laughed at. The Tory party is dead. A pointless Reform tribute act.

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

A lot of people had the right to be in Germany in the 1930s, too Just saying... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

I agree with Luke.

Can't wait!

Surely this is a predictor's being beamed down to the underground temple to start the alien hunt?

Exactly this.

Reviewed Nick Clegg’s book. Didn’t think much of it, except for: “Nadine Dorries, while secretary of state for the department overseeing the internet, ‘once called me in high dudgeon, demanding to know why I hadn’t taken down tweets … I had to explain to her that Twitter was a different company’.”

This is a great song.

Exactly this.

Well quite.

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Incredibly, the wealthy elite that drove Brexit genuinely believe this. We need to make more of them say it out loud on the record. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Really interesting.

Banning Palestine Action was an absolutely idiotic decision. I wonder if the government would actually quietly welcome the court ruling against the ban - to avoid the (obviously) necessity, eventually, of removing it themselves.

This, but also the insanely stupid and obviously counterproductive political positions on spending and migration. There is only one path to Labour victory in 4 years - and that's noticeable improvement in health provision and housing. Curtailing NHS spending achieves (obviously) the opposite.

The left's self knowledge is famously awful, ofc, but what's happening in the Corbyn/Sultana vanity project is objectively hysterical. Without the colossal egos involved, they would have joined the Greens. I'm now glad they didn't - we'd have missed out on all this!

Wha?

Exactly this.

As I said yesterday, Labour will not hold a majority on a single London borough after May 2026.

Anyone using this kind of language about vulnerable young people who were repeatedly raped should be immediately kicked out of the Labour Party, regardless of the position he holds.

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The people saying that “leftists” want them dead are the same people wildly applauding an administration that’s cutting cancer research and access to life-saving vaccines; gutting the Social Safety Net; and emptying poisons into our air, water, and food through deregulation. But sure.

This is a scandal - we are at the end of days!

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Spot on.

John has won bluesky today.

The Corbyn YourParty shitshow is perhaps the most predictable thing I've heard in a while. Funny though.

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Yeah realpolitik etc, but laying on bells, whistles and pomp for a head of state who says "immigration destroys countries from within" is, by definition, another step into the void

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Exactly this. Politically they sound appealing, but in practical terms, their revenue impact isn't significant. Neidle has written a long read on this.

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Brilliant. It's why I love London. It's a proof point for successful multiculturalism - which is of course why the right hate it.

Exactly. Once again, the default biases of the current editorial stance across BBC politics are made clear.